Johnson v. Elliot’s Empirical Analysis
1950
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently August 1989 · most notably Steen v. Rustad (1957), Boswell v. Rio De Oro Uranium Mines, Inc. (1961)
2 federal appellate · 28 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Hefferlin v. Karlman · Hart v. Barron · Blankenship v. Decker · Hogan v. Thrasher · Johnson v. Ogle
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The plaintiff who had not signed the contract supplied the necessary mutuality of obligation by the institution of the action on the contract.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ward v. Mattuschek
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.